Numbers: Jun. 12, 2006

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19.2 million Estimated number of U.S. adults who have diabetes--9.3% of the population

1/3 Proportion of adult Americans with diabetes who don't know they have the disease

$38 million Amount Henry Paulson, President Bush's nominee for Treasury Secretary, earned in 2005 as chairman and CEO of Goldman Sachs

$175,700 Annual salary he would earn as Treasury Secretary

75 Number of Guantánamo Bay detainees who last week joined a hunger strike led by three inmates who have been force-fed since last August

9 Number of consecutive meals a detainee must intentionally miss to be deemed a hunger striker

3 million Varieties of seed--including rice, barley and fruit-bearing plants--that Norway plans to freeze in a Noah's Ark of crops to prevent their extinction in any future global cataclysm

-40˚F Temperature at which the seeds will be kept

28% Percentage of Americans polled who believe the Bible is literally true, down from 38% in 1976

19% Percentage who view the Bible as an "ancient book of fables," up from 13%

Sources: USA Today (2); CNNMoney (2); New York Times (4); Gallup Poll (2)